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Genesis 12 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Abram Journeys to Egypt

(Act 7:2–5 )

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Now the LORD said to Abram,

“Go from your country,

And from your relatives

And from your father’s house,

To the land which I will show you;

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And I will make you into a great nation,

And I will bless you,

And make your name great;

And you shall be a blessing;

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And I will bless those who bless you,

And the one who [fn]curses you I will [fn]curse.

And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

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So Abram went away as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the [fn]people which they had acquired in Haran, and they [fn]set out for the land of Canaan; so they came to the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:6 - Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the [fn]oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - And the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your [fn]descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the [fn]Negev.

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Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a time, because the famine was severe in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - It came about, when he [fn]was approaching Egypt, that he said to his wife Sarai, “See now, I know that you are a [fn]beautiful woman;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:12 - and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:13 - “Please say that you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you, and that [fn]I may live on account of you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - Now it came about, when Abram entered Egypt, that the Egyptians [fn]saw that the woman was very beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:15 - Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:16 - Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and [fn]he gave him sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

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But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19 - “Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for myself as a wife? Now then, [fn]here is your wife, take her and go!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:20 - And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they [fn]escorted him away, with his wife and all that belonged to him.
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NASB20 Footnotes
Or reviles
Or bind under a curse
Lit souls
Lit went forth to go to
Or terebinth
Lit seed
I.e., South country
Lit came near to enter
Lit woman of beautiful appearance
Lit my soul
Lit saw the woman that she was
Lit there was to him
Or behold
Lit sent
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Genesis Chapter 12 — Additional Translations:

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